2015 NSW Youth Work Conference

Join us to make NSW a better place for young people!

Youth Action is proud to present the NSW Youth Work Conference 2015. Each day we will explore how we currently service and engage young people across NSW and how youth workers, advocates and service managers can create tangible actions to improve these services and the lives of young people. The 2015 NSW Youth Work Conference will address three key topics:

Targeted Earlier Intervention (TEI) reform

Best Practice Youth Work

Youth Policy Agenda

The conference will approach these topics from both a strategic and practical level, with a range of training workshops, panel discussions, keynote speakers and roundtable consultations. Come share in a celebration of the NSW Youth Sector, reinvigorate your practice and help us shape the youth policy agenda with our incredible line-up of speakers:

Mychelle Curran, Executive Director of Community, Homes and Place at FaCS – Ready to answer your questions about the TEI Reform

The Hon. Brad Hazzard MP and Dr Mehreen Faruqi MLC – Discussing how better systems can deliver better outcomes for young people

Verity Firth, Former CEO of the Public Education Foundation – Unpacking education policy challenges and opportunities for young people

Brian Cheney, NSW Treasury – What does Treasury really mean when they say 'value for money' and how do they value social services?

Sam Crosby, The McKell Institute – How to influence your MP

Tracey Howe, CEO NCOSS – What does the $1 billion social housing fund mean for young people?

Dorothy Hoddinott AO, Principal, Holroyd High – Education and the wellbeing of young people

Dr. Louise Crabtree, Western Sydney University – Forecasting the future of housing affordability